Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.